This book offers an innovative examination of the interactions of
science and technology, art, and literature in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. Scholars in the history of art, literature,
architecture, computer science, and media studies focus on five
historical themes in the transition from energy to information:
thermodynamics, electromagnetism, inscription, information theory,
and virtuality. Different disciplines are grouped around specific
moments in the history of science and technology in order to sample
the modes of representation invented or adapted by each field in
response to newly developed scientific concepts and models. By
placing literary fictions and the plastic arts in relation to the
transition from the era of energy to the information age, this
collection of essays discovers unexpected resonances among concepts
and materials not previously brought into juxtaposition. In
particular, it demonstrates the crucial centrality of the theme of
energy in modernist discourse. Overall, the volume develops the
scientific and technological side of the shift from modernism to
postmodernism in terms of the conceptual crossover from energy to
information. The contributors are Christoph Asendorf, Ian F. A.
Bell, Robert Brain, Bruce Clarke, Charlotte Douglas, N. Katherine
Hayes, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Bruce J. Hunt, Douglas Kahn,
Timothy Lenoir, W. J. T. Mitchell, Marcos Novak, Edward Shanken,
Richard Shiff, David Tomas, Sha Xin Wei, and Norton Wise.
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